Yesss! One of my favorite bands playing at SS Irish Parade 3/13/2010

Periodically I check to see when they're coming back to the US and my search led me to this:
http://www.southsideirishparade.org/

My understanding was they canned that parade, but it looks like they've reinvented it as some sort of closed/paid block party type thing (family fest-- nothing against families but the misuse of the "family" flag to try to be exclusionary makes me want to puke.)

But anyways I wouldn't miss Hothouse Flowers; wonder what sort of potential there is to get a bike entry in the parade? And whether the Rat Patrol was in part responsible for the decision to clamp down?